Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra Austen help each other to dress in the Regency fashions of 1810.
Getting Dressed – Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra (1810)
Getting Dressed – Victorian Gardener
1850s , a lonely Victorian Gardener prepares for a special day.
Getting Dressed – Prince Albert 1848
Prince Albert prepares for Christmas Eve in 1848
The scene we depicted was based an image found the Illustrated London News of 1848:
A short documentary about some of the research that went into recreating a scene of Queen Victoria’s family and their children’s Christmas tree in 1848:
Getting Dressed – Queen Victoria 1848
Queen Victoria dresses on Christmas Eve 1848
The making of Queen Victoria’s dress by Pauline Loven of Crow’s Eye Productions:
Getting Dressed in the 18th Century – Dido Belle
Dido Belle prepares for her portrait to be painted by the artist David Martin accompanied by her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray.
A short film on the research behind the making of this film:
Getting Dressed in the 1830’s
The popularity of the excellent BBC series ‘Gentleman Jack’, led to many requests for ‘getting dressed’ film from that era.
Getting Dressed in the 14th Century
We have just filmed a sequence on ‘Getting Dressed in the 14th Century’ – the century when it is considered that fashion began. The film has just been released on Crow’s Eye Productions YouTube Channel.
Below: Screen grabs from the film:
Director: Nic Loven, Production Assistant: Lilli Stoddart, Actors: Kirsty Hannah and Lucy Sherre Cooper, Costume: Pauline Loven, Hairdressing Anita Cudbertson, Location: The Saxon House.
Dressing in the 18th Century
Crow’s Eye Productions has just completed a follow-up to our film ‘Getting Dressed in the 18th Century’ that we made for Lady Lever Art Gallery. The immense popularity of the first film raised the question amongst the audience who viewed it and enjoyed the complexity of a wealthy woman’s dress: ‘who dressed the maid’? So we made the second film to explain in detail how dress was simplified by working women, and made more practical and affordable, while still maintaining the fashionable silhouette. As with the first film, this was devised, directed, filmed and edited by Nic Loven, and researched and costumed by Pauline Loven.
Our first task was to find a suitable location to film in, but we already knew of an almost unaltered chamber (bedroom) of a one-up one-down 18th century cottage, now part of the Friends Meeting House in Brant Broughton.
The cottage and attached barn had been donated to The Friends in 1701 and, apart from minor alterations to turn the barn into a Meeting House and subsequently to put in power and heating, the core of the building was maintained unaltered. The fireplaces, floors, doors (with original blacksmith door furnishings), walls and windows remained as they had been in 1701. Even the original cloak pegs were in place.
The only problems filming were the small area we had to work in and the fact that the original prayer benches had to be stacked to one side of the room.
We chose our model, Liv Free, for her natural English rose looks, but to her surprise and ours she turned out to live in the next village and so it was perhaps her easiest ever commute to a modelling job! Not only is Liv a beautiful model and hair and makeup artist, but she also has also created a line of extraordinary and opulent accessories, including headpieces and masks (though we didn’t need any for this shoot!).
Our Voice Over Artist, Martha Milne, is an American who has lived in Lincolnshire for many years. She has been a long term collaborator with Nic Loven and Crow’s Eye Productions.
The script was researched and written by our period costumier Pauline Loven and edited by Martha Milne. Pauline also created the costumes and produced the film.
The film was made on the tiniest of budgets – even the replica period pottery was loaned to us (by Andrew MacDonald from the Pot Shop in Lincoln), and the bed was made at cost by carpenter Peter Halse. So a huge thank you to everyone who made this possible!
Full list of credits:
Director/Cinematographer: Nic Loven
Producer/Costumier: Pauline Loven
Production Assistant: Lilli Stoddart
Woman: Liv Free
VO: Martha Milne
Location: Friends Meeting House, Brant Broughton
Carpentry: Peter Halse
Pottery: Andrew MacDonald of the Pot Shop, Lincoln
Bed Quilt: Martha and Emily Milne
Cockerel: Hughie
Special thanks to the Friends for permission to use the Meeting House and to Wendy Gwatkin in particular for all her support at the Meeting House and the loan of antique furniture too!
Many thanks to John and Sam O’Boyle for allowing us to record their cockerel Hughie!
Lady Lever Art Gallery has now commissioned us the make another film, this time on the dress of a wealthy 18th century man.